Quotes about Recollection

There's a time to live and a time to die. In between there's time to remember.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Ruthie handed me a leather-bound notebook and said she wanted me to fill it with everything I could remember.

Funny how you lose sight of some things and memory others.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

My son accompanied me throughout the campaign and siege, and caused no anxiety either to me or to his mother, who was at home. He looked out for himself and was in every battle of the campaign. His age, then not quite thirteen, enabled him to take in all he saw, and to retain a recollection of it that would not be possible in more mature years.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

Existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.